Katherine Feldmeier, LCSW

Katherine Feldmeier is a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) with 15 years of experience helping adults who feel overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, depression, addictions, or past trauma. She focuses on practical steps that build confidence and calm. Katherine aims to help people find clearer thinking and more stable days. Katherine centers sessions on the person in front of her. She listens closely and uses approaches that match each person's needs. Therapy may include cognitive behavioral techniques to change unhelpful thinking, client-centered conversation to clarify values, and emotion-focused work to repair painful patterns. Her style is straightforward and goal oriented. Together with each client she sets concrete goals and practices tools between sessions. Short skill-building exercises, mindfulness practices, and motivational strategies are common parts of the work. Katherine often helps people manage life transitions, relationship and intimacy concerns, parenting strain, grief, and work-related stress. She also supports people dealing with sleep and eating difficulties, ADHD, chronic health challenges, and compassion fatigue. Her experience includes care for adoption and foster care issues as well as blended family dynamics. Sessions are offered in English and conducted online by video, phone, live chat, or text messaging. She describes the first step as a brief matching process that leads to scheduling a time to begin. Katherine emphasizes steady progress, practical tools, and discovering strengths already present in each person.

How therapeutic approaches work online

Katherine often uses cognitive behavioral therapy to help people notice and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors; this approach is useful for anxiety, depression, and stress by breaking problems into manageable steps. She also draws on client-centered therapy, which emphasizes listening, empathy, and the client's own goals to guide the work; this can help people gain clarity and confidence. Emotionally focused techniques are used when patterns in close relationships or difficult emotions are central, helping people name feelings and shift how they respond to them.

Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist and client discuss goals, try approaches that fit those goals, and adjust as needed. Katherine encourages clients to offer feedback so sessions stay focused on what helps most for day-to-day life and longer term change.

Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect: video calls for face-to-face conversation, phone sessions when video is not needed, live chat for shorter check-ins, and text messaging for ongoing support between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a workday, manage lower bandwidth needs, or choose a brief format for skill practice and coaching. Licensed professionals can adapt exercises and homework to whichever format a client prefers.